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Rachel Maddow fired one across the administration's bow last night in a lengthy piece breaking down its strategy behind the war in Afghanistan. She acknowledges that setting up an Afghan government is a vital US interest. "The administration's argument for staying in Afghanistan and what to do there is logical," she said on MSNBC. But "it depends on a premise that is romantic, and unproven, and, I believe, unlikely."

Maddow argues that nation-building is not a military function. "The 82nd Airborne can do many things but it can't make the governor of Nangarhar Province not corrupt," she said. So if we don't think the Afghan government will step up—and she doesn't—"then asking Americans to die in Afghanistan is wrong. It's over. ... It's not partisan. It's not even passionate. It's rational. Horribly, horribly rational."

This is Bush's war, not Obama's war....so say the Liberals.... Tell Bush to stop the war, someone....

emptycalm

Jul 17, 2010 12:48 AM CDT

Even in trying to say something right, she misses the point. She supports nation building to exploit other countries for our own selfish desires and only seems to give a shit that american lives are being wasted. American exceptionalism is not exempt from liberal doctrine(since you abhor the term ideology).